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GATE OS Topicwise Notes

The document outlines key concepts in operating systems, including processes and threads, CPU scheduling algorithms, process synchronization techniques, deadlock conditions and management, memory management strategies, file systems, I/O management, and system calls. It covers essential topics such as process states, scheduling metrics, critical section problems, memory paging, and disk scheduling methods. Additionally, it discusses various file allocation methods and the types of system calls related to process control and file management.

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GATE OS Topicwise Notes

The document outlines key concepts in operating systems, including processes and threads, CPU scheduling algorithms, process synchronization techniques, deadlock conditions and management, memory management strategies, file systems, I/O management, and system calls. It covers essential topics such as process states, scheduling metrics, critical section problems, memory paging, and disk scheduling methods. Additionally, it discusses various file allocation methods and the types of system calls related to process control and file management.

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Processes and Threads

- Process: A program in execution. Has its own memory space.

- Thread: A lightweight process that shares memory with other threads in the same process.

- Process States: New, Ready, Running, Waiting, Terminated

- Context Switching: Saving and loading process state during switching.

2. CPU Scheduling

- Scheduling Algorithms: FCFS, SJF, Round Robin, Priority

- Gantt charts used for visualizing schedule.

- Metrics: Waiting Time, Turnaround Time, Response Time

3. Process Synchronization

- Critical Section Problem: Ensures mutual exclusion.

- Peterson's Algorithm, Semaphores, Mutex

- Classical Problems: Producer-Consumer, Dining Philosophers, Readers-Writers

4. Deadlocks

- Necessary Conditions: Mutual Exclusion, Hold and Wait, No Preemption, Circular Wait

- Prevention, Avoidance (Banker's Algorithm), Detection, Recovery

5. Memory Management

- Paging and Segmentation

- Page Table, TLB

- Virtual Memory, Demand Paging

- Page Replacement: FIFO, LRU, Optimal

6. File Systems

- File Attributes, Operations, Types

- Directory Structures: Single, Two-level, Tree, Acyclic Graph

- File Allocation: Contiguous, Linked, Indexed


7. I/O Management

- Disk Scheduling: FCFS, SSTF, SCAN, C-SCAN

- RAID Levels: RAID 0, 1, 5

8. System Calls & Basics

- Types: Process Control, File Management, Device Management, Information Maintenance

- OS Services: Program Execution, I/O Operations, File System Manipulation

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